In Berlin she studied singing, musicology, ethnomusicology and Bulgarian studies. She received a doctorate on “Authenticity, Mediality and Identity of Authentic Bulgarian Music”. Practicing old musical traditions, she sings at services in the Bulgarian church and since 2004 with the
traditional Ensemble Polynushka and with the avant-garde Ensemble Extrakte
for creative music research since 2013. She is committed to social contexts by
creating new unifying musical situations. In a combination of academic and
artistic work, she teaches at universities, colleges and in music education in
Germany and Bulgaria.